Warhammer: Become a Saint Starting with the Banner of Souls

It was a jade plaque about the size of a palm, with an intricate and complex Bagua (Eight Trigrams) pattern engraved on its surface.

The jade plaque is grayish-white all over, with a warm and smooth texture like mutton fat jade, but its surface is shrouded in a thin layer of mist, making it impossible to see its full appearance no matter how you look at it.

This is a secret treasure that Qin Mo obtained in an ancient secret realm he experienced in the cultivation world: the Eight Trigrams Covering the Sky Diagram.

This treasure has only one function: to interfere with the secrets of heaven, confuse cause and effect, and render all attempts to deduce, divine, or spy on the holder ineffective.

In the cultivation world, Qin Mo relied on this treasure to evade the pursuit of powerful righteous cultivators on many occasions. When the opponent's divination techniques could not pinpoint his location, even the most powerful cultivators could only sigh in despair.

"I hope it will work in this world too," Qin Mo said softly.

He held the Bagua Covering the Sky Diagram in his palm and quickly formed a series of complex hand seals with both hands—Dingmao, Renshen, Guiyou, Jiaxu… He completed the twelve hand seals within three breaths.

Then, he began chanting a spell:

"The Supreme Three Pure Ones, the Mysterious Eight Trigrams. The sun and moon have lost their light, the celestial mechanisms are in disarray. Cause and effect are severed, destiny is confused. Those who peer into me are blind, those who explore me are bewildered. Hasten, hasten, as the law commands—by decree!"

The Bagua Sky-Covering Diagram suddenly burst forth with a grayish-white light.

Centered on Qin Mo, the ripples spread outwards in all directions, covering several miles of surrounding space in the blink of an eye.

The grayish-white light blended into the spatial structure, like a thin veil covering the surface of the real world, completely concealing Qin Mo's presence.

The effect was almost immediate.

Qin Mo clearly felt that the four ever-present prying eyes became blurred the moment the Bagua Heaven-Covering Diagram was activated.

but--

That's all.

Qin Mo frowned.

The feeling of being spied on has indeed lessened, but it hasn't completely disappeared.

He could still feel the presence of those four gazes, though they had become blurry and uncertain, they still enveloped him.

In other words, although the four Chaos Gods could no longer see him clearly, they still knew his approximate location.

"As expected." Qin Mo wasn't surprised, but he still sighed. "It's unrealistic to expect to completely conceal the prying eyes of these powerful beings with just a secret treasure."

The Eight Trigrams Covering the Sky Diagram can deceive powerful celestial immortals in the cultivation world, but the Four Chaos Gods are innate deities at the level of Grand Luo Golden Immortals, which is more than one major realm lower.

Being able to blur the other party's perception is already an extraordinary achievement. To completely conceal oneself would be virtually impossible unless one's own cultivation level reaches the Hunyuan Daluo level.

Just as Qin Mo was racking his brains over this matter, a new notification popped up on the system screen in his mind:

[System notification: The host is being spied upon by the warp of the Chaos Gods. A countermeasure has been activated.]

[Solution Details: The system has created an independent mini-world within the host's Myriad Soul Banner. This mini-world is constructed based on the system's energy, and its spatial structure is completely independent of the real world and the subspace. It can completely isolate any power from the subspace, including but not limited to the spying of the Chaos Gods, the erosion of subspace storms, and the perception of demons.]

[Initial size of the small world: fifty square meters.]

[Expansion Method: The area of ​​the small world can be expanded by consuming merit points.]

[Additional Feature: You can use Merit Points to build various facilities in the mini-world. Please check the system shop for a detailed list of facilities and Merit Point costs.]

[Note: After the host enters the small world, the Chaos Gods will be completely unaware of the host's presence. This is currently the host's safest refuge.]

Qin Mo raised an eyebrow slightly after reading the message.

"Oh? You're quite thoughtful."

[Answer to host: This is a basic function of the system. Ensuring the host's safety and cultivation environment is the system's responsibility.]

"Basic functions?" Qin Mo scoffed. "Why didn't you say so earlier? Why did you have to wait until I took out the treasure myself before mentioning it?"

[The system suggests that the host first try to solve the problem independently, which will help cultivate independence.]

"Heh." Qin Mo didn't pursue the topic further. In any case, the fact that the Myriad Soul Banner contained a small world that could completely isolate him from the prying eyes of the subspace was indeed an extremely important safeguard for him.

At least when you need to go into seclusion to cultivate or refine pills and magical treasures, you don't have to worry about being watched by four Primordial Grand Luo level innate deities.

"Fifty square meters...that's too small." Qin Mo shook his head. "But something is better than nothing. We'll expand it slowly once we've accumulated enough merit."

With his worries resolved, Qin Mo was in high spirits. He turned around and looked again at the group of pitiful Space Marines on the ground.

At this moment, the Dark Apostle was looking at Qin Mo with an extremely complex gaze.

Puzzled.

fear.

And a deep sense of bewilderment.

Although he was powerless to resist during the soul search, his psychic perception was still functioning.

He clearly "saw" Qin Mo's divine sense; that power was as vast as the sea and as deep as an abyss, and it was also accompanied by a strong aura of darkness.

Yes, darkness.

The Dark Apostle has walked the path of chaos for over ten thousand years, and his perception of darkness is more acute than anyone else's.

The aura emanating from Qin Mo—the resentment of the tormented souls within the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the violent invasion of souls by the Soul Searching Technique, and the malevolent energy accumulated from his cultivation of evil arts—all conveyed a clear signal to the Dark Apostle:

This person is the one who controls the power of darkness.

In a sense, his cultivation method is similar to that of Chaos.

But the problem is—

Why was someone who exudes a dark aura completely unaffected by the subspace when reading his own memories?

This is not reasonable.

You must know that his memories are filled with forbidden knowledge about the warp, the indescribable appearance of the Chaos Gods, and countless primordial truths that could drive mortals mad and mutate instantly.

But this man in front of them forcibly read all their memories, thoroughly rummaged through that chaotic knowledge, and was completely unharmed!

There were no mutated tentacles, no bleeding eyes, no descent into madness, and not even the slightest sign of being corrupted by the warp!

This person clearly holds such an evil magical artifact and exudes an aura colder than that of a demon, yet he remains unaffected by the assimilation of the subspace!

In the Dark Apostles' understanding, the Warp is the source of all dark forces and chaos.

Any being tainted by darkness will resonate with the Warp to some extent—the more evil and powerful the being, the closer its connection to the Warp.

This is an ironclad rule he has observed over the past ten thousand years, without exception.

But Qin Mo was the exception.

His dark aura was so intense it was almost tangible, yet his soul was incredibly pure.

The corrupting power of pure, subspace space simply cannot penetrate it.

How is that possible?

"What...are you?"

"You clearly emanate an ominous aura... The techniques you practice and the tools you use are all evil arts based on devouring souls... Your methods are no different from those of Chaos..."

"But why... are you unaffected by the warp?"